On Wednesday morning, almost two decades since Ms. Lane was last seen, her mother appeared at a Vancouver press conference. Michele Pineault carried with her a wooden box. Inside that box were her daughter’s remains. Two bone fragments, pieces of her daughter’s vertebrae.
Small things. But much greater than microscopic wisps of DNA from other women, recovered by investigators at the same Port Coquitlam crime scene following Pickton’s arrest for murder in 2002...
The remaining charges were stayed because the Crown felt a second trial would be too difficult and lengthy to prosecute. Another reason: with six life sentences, there’s almost no chance that Pickton will ever be released from prison. He will die behind bars. Of course, that’s cold comfort for the relatives of the 27 other women whom he was either charged with or suspected of killing.